Madam Liu from Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, came to the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday morning, together with her five-year-old kid. They lit a candle and put their palms together devoutly, mourning the dead and blessing those alive.
Tomomi Inada, policy chief of Japan ' s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), on Tuesday provocatively paid homage to the war-linked notorious Yasukuni Shrine ahead Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's summit with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington later in the day.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war criminal-honoring Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, with a handful of other political bigwigs also making a similar offering, although aide Seiichi Eto opted to visit the controversial shrine in person.
About 110 Japanese lawmakers from a nonpartisan group on Friday morning visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine as it kicks off a four-day autumn festival.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine through his aide Kouichi Hagiuda on Friday on the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender to the World War II.
Located in Kudankita in Chiyoda Ward in central Tokyo, Yasukuni Shrine is regarded as the most notorious Japanese shrine worldwide, especially in the international political arena, as each and every visit here by officials upsets and incenses Japan's neighboring countries.
The 44-day long annual pilgrimage to the Hindu shrine of Amarnath concluded in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.
Japan's Administrative Reform Minister Tomomi Inada paid a visit to the notorious Yasukuni war shrine on Monday afternoon, local media reported.
Japan was a friend of South Korea one time and an enemy the other as history says. Now, at a time when Japan may have become a heartfelt neighbor, or at least not an enemy, to South Korea, its leadership decided to add fuel to the flames of its bereft next-door neighbor by visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine.
About 150 Japanese lawmakers from a nonpartisan group on Tuesday morning visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine during the spring festival.
A Japanese civil group on Monday sued with the Tokyo District Court over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, stating Abe's move was unconstitutional.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely visit the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by the end of the year, according to government and media sources Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday morning made an offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival, according to local media.
The best solution, according to a number of experts on the matter, is for Japan's politicians to pay their respect to the lives lost during the war at Japan's official war cemetery, just minutes from the unofficial Yasukuni site.
Two Japanese ministers on Thursday morning visited the notorious Yasukuni shrine, a move that will further harm mutual trust between Japan and its neighbors.
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